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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Looks like it has a lurgy.  Or maybe a fright?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Didn’t think it looked hardcore enough for Siouxsie Sioux @punkdoc 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Very nice @Dovefromabove. Looks like it's been through a shredder :D
    Tulips not out yet here, apart from the species ones. Looking forward to the ones I bought last year, which are also fringy. 
    I was wondering where you might be @wendymadre - with all those clematis in flower!
    Lovely.  :)
    Bluebells are so early further south - they don't get going until end of April/May here. They always look splendid when there's a huge spread of them.  :)

    I forgot about this thread last week - when my RTBC was a little coal tit in the front garden, picking up little bits of fluffy stuff for a nest. I timed it perfectly, walked round just in time to see him/her.  A very small, simple pleasure, but it made my day  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Didn’t think it looked hardcore enough for Siouxsie Sioux @punkdoc 😉 

    I agree, definitely Toyah.  Rock 'n' Roll but thtill nithe.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Wisteria nearly in full bloom. I have some Parrot tulips Dove that have fringed petals, both two tone pink ones and a nearly black form. Undecided about them but they keep coming up! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I bought some parrot tulips for that bed a couple of years back, but they're not out yet  ... I really don’t remember buying anything as frilly as that one tho. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Could be a 'rogue' one amongst a recent tulip bulb purchase?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I have a yen for the white fringed tulips... a great combination of OTT and purity...  seen them in municipal displays but didn't find any for sale last autumn.  Maybe next year!
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Maybe @Lizzie27 ... but I didn't plant any fresh for this season ... maybe it was blind last season. I’m getting quite fond of it 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The ones I bought last year are V. van Gogh, which should be dark and fringed, but I doubt that's what I've got. The tips are just colouring up , and they're very orangey yellow looking. 
    Maybe yours are 'infiltrating' @Dovefromabove ..... :o
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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